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Bag End Made From 2,600 Balloons? Yep.

Balloon artist Jeremy Telford at work on his replica of Bag End. Those are balloons, not sausages.

You have some spare time. You know your way around a balloon. And you really like The Hobbit.

So you make a replica of Bag End. Of course!

If you're an obsessed fan like balloon artist Jeremy Telford, over three days, for ten to fifteen hours a day, you inflate, twist, bend, smoosh and lash together some 2,600 balloons in your family den.

You make walls, a ceiling, roof beams, a fireplace. You make a pantry with doors and handles, chairs, a table, a chandelier, and even a roaring fire. (Not a real fire. That might, uh, pop a few balloons.)